🆓 FREE Just Add Drums Acoustic Drum Library (free Kontakt Player library)

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https://www.justadddrums.store/cdn/shop/videos/c/vp/41afc66169d640a38481d7a1d987bec0/41afc66169d640a38481d7a1d987bec0.HD-1080p-7.2Mbps-60490434.mp4?v=0

The library won’t be released until Black Friday. You need to register now to get the library. Limited quantities available, so register as soon as possible.

https://www.justadddrums.store/products/modern-drums-free

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Just a reminder, this free acoustic drum sample library for the free Kontakt player deal ends Oct 31, 2025, so if you’re interested, don’t sleep on this freebie.

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If you signed up for the free Just Add Drums Modern Drums Kontakt Player drum kit when it was available, check your email. Just Add Drums is now distributing the freebie. I just picked up mine and will share my thoughts on it after I have some time to check it out.

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[jorge]

Thank you!
I had the email in my spam folder.

After get the product, you will get a Native Access license. 🙂

Computer scientist by profession, and musician as a hobby
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Just tried it. I liked one of the presets; the one called Lively. But with a bunch of SD3, EZX, AD2, and premium Kontakt kits, considering that the free doesn’t have a rim shot, that it doesn’t completely follow the general MIDI spec, and that it only has two toms, I’m probably going to delete this one from my hard drive. If it had 3 toms, followed the general MIDI, and had rim shots, I would keep it. For those who are on a tight budget, this makes the cut. But since it’s no longer available for free, I won’t be including on the Best Kontakt Sample Libraries list. However, if it was made available as a permanent freebie, it would make my list. For free, it’s excellent. But if you’re a SD3 or even an EZdrummer user, this will fall short.

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[mustakatu]

Back in stock: 578 licenses available at the moment

[pseudopop]

On LinkedMusicians said

[…] it doesn’t completely follow the general MIDI spec […]

It’s hard to understand why this is so difficult for many drum library developers. It feels like such a basic thing.

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@pseudopop I can’t help but wonder if their logic is to lock people into sticking with their drum plugins by not complying with the standard, so if you use their plugin to create a MIDI track, you can’t easily swap it out with another drum plugin. Whatever the logic, it’s undesirable, IMO. While I think this is a good freebie, for those of us that own SD3, EZdrummer or AD2 — and maybe even BFD3  — I really don’t think it’s worth the effort due to the lack of General MIDI mapping, having only two toms, and the lack of rim shots. A lot of developers are challenged with how much to take out to make a free library version of a paid library interesting, but I think that this developer made just a few too many compromises for me to not press the delete key. If they had three toms, general midi mapping, and snare rim shot samples, it would be a keeper (even though I only liked one patch). But for those who can’t afford paid libraries, much like BDF Player — which I would never recommend if people could afford ezDrummer, AD2, or SD3 — is worthwhile ONLY for those who don’t have the budget for paid alternatives.

That said, I think that the Just Add Drums free kit sounds a lot better than BFD Player kits, which I think don’t sound very good compared to EZdrummer, AD2 or most decent Kontakt acoustic drum libraries. When I rate free sample libraries, I keep expectations realistic. It’s pretty rare that they’re sampled in great detail with the velocity layers, round robins, mixing capabilities, effects options, and other capabilities of better paid alternatives. If this kit were available year round as a freebie, it would make the LM list of best free sample libraries. But for people who can afford good paid libraries and plugins, I don’t think it’s really worth picking up.

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